(—) and George H. (died 17 June 1939), brothers, involved in Cornwall journalism. (Archie Porteous) Their parents, who emigrated from Edinburgh, Scotland, and settled in Cornwall, were William Porteous, a master carpenter who worked on the locks of the Cornwall Canal, and his wife Elizabeth Forest. In 1882 or 1883, Archibald and George H. Porteous founded a weekly newspaper, the Cornwall News. Archibald is described as having been the publisher of the paper. The Cornwall Freeholder of 23 March 1883 noted that “The new dollar weekly paper called The News made its appearance on Wednesday last.” The editor was A. C. Porteous. If the event described was the first appearance of the paper, and not a re-launching of a young paper struggling to establish itself, the date for the beginning of the News is definitely 1883 not 1882. (The dollar would have been the price per year, not issue.) The News lasted till 1886, when R.R. (Big Rory) McLennan bought the News and the Cornwall Reporter and used them as the basis for founding his new paper, the Cornwall Standard. Archibald later gave up journalism and served the Sun Life Insurance Co. “for many years in Bermuda.” (obit. of Mrs Surgenor) George H., who was born in Cornwall, worked for the Cornwall Standard and the Montreal Witness and for the government printing bureau in Ottawa, and he held an editorial position on the Montreal Gazette till 5 years before he died. He died in Toronto but was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, Cornwall.

Standard Freeholder 19 June 1939 * obituary of their sister Mrs William Surgenor of West Front, Cornwall, SFH 26 April 1940 * Harkness 375 * Senior 272